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Rhiannon, a New Graphic Novel from Kiara Brinkman and Sean Chiki
Rhiannon is a middle-grade graphic novel by married writer-illustrator team Kiara Brinkman and Sean Chiki, about three friends who spend a summer in a trailer park in a sleepy Southwest town.
Kiara Brinkman and Sean Chiki also sold their Beatles-inspired graphic novel together, Lucy In The Sky, to First Second, to published in 2021, in which 12-year-old Lucy, inspired by her father's Beatles records, faces her insecurities and forms an all-girl rock band.
Publisher's Weekly says the publication of Rhiannon, also from First Second and bought by Calista Brill, is planned for the winter of 2023, to be edited by First Second's Robyn Chapman. Alice Tasman at the Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency negotiated the deal for world rights.
Kiara Brinkman wrote the 2007 novel Up High In The Trees for Grove Press, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Chicago Tribune Favorite Book, as well as various short stories published by One Story and McSweeney's. Her contribution to McSweeney's, Counting Underwater was named one of the 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2005 in The Best American Short Stories 2006. Her husband Sean Chiki is a middle school teacher and cartoonist. His comic stories have been published in collections from Skoda Man Press, and his cartoons have appeared in The Funny Times.
Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency was established by Jean Naggar in 1978 as a one-woman agency, that has grown considerably over the decades and now into representing graphic novelists.
First Second Books is an American publisher of graphic novels. An imprint of Roaring Brook Press, part of Holtzbrinck Publishers, First Second publishes fiction, biographies, personal memoirs, history, visual essays, and comics journalism. First Second launched in May 2006, distributed by Macmillan in the rest of the English-speaking world. After the merger in 2010, Macmillan distributes all of the books. It is headed by editorial director Mark Siegel.
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